If they get questions, they should understand that they are not required to provide any information about themselves or their request. The law is definitely clear on that. Yet you do have representatives of those agencies asking. That's a sign that the person isn't trained.

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Being mayor doesn't give her the authority to violate the Constitution or suspend it. Anyone has the right to attend a meeting of government bodies as provided by state law and directly by the Constitution. She is simply a mayor, and there are limits to her powers. I'd have her point to the law that gives her the authority to prevent colleagues from attending public meetings.

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The burden should be on the city to show, in terms of concrete municipal experience, why this ordinance is needed.

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If the officials back or approve (a) deal, the chances are better than ever that he or she will get a campaign contribution after the fact. If I were intent on looking for big campaign contributors, this might be a valuable catalog.

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People who care at all about what government is doing rely on watchdogs to get that information out.

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It's appalling. This is worse than anything we've seen at the local level.

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